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'''Hysteria''' is an illness which has now been divided into two groups of disorders, conversion disorders (more recently called [[Functional neurological symptom disorder|Functional Neurological Symptom Disorders]]), and Dissociative Disorders; it is no longer a recognized name for an illness.<ref>{{Cite web | url = http://apps.who.int/classifications/apps/icd/icd10online2007/index.htm | title = ICD-10 | last = World Health Organization | first = | authorlink = World Health Organization | date = |website=[[World Health Organization]]|archive-url=|archive-date=|url-status=|access-date=2019-03-06}}</ref> Hysteria was [[Female predominant diseases|mostly diagnosed in women]], and was at one point believed to be caused by a woman's womb wandering around the body. == <span id="masshysteria">Mass hysteria</span> == The [[1955 Royal Free Hospital outbreak|Royal Free Hospital outbreak]] of [[epidemic myalgic encephalomyelitis]] in 1955 was attributed to "mass hysteria" by psychiatrists [[Colin McEvedy|McEvedy]] and [[William Beard|Beard]], who never examined any patients.<ref>{{Cite journal | last = Compston | first = Nigel Dean | authorlink = Nigel Compston | date = Nov 1, 1978 | title = An outbreak of encephalomyelitis in the Royal Free Hospital Group, London, in 1955 | url = https://pmj.bmj.com/content/54/637/722|journal=[[Postgraduate Medical Journal]]|language=en|volume=54|issue=637 | pages = 722β724|doi=10.1136/pgmj.54.637.722|issn=0032-5473|pmid=746018|quote=McEvedy and Beardβs conclusions (of mass hysteria) ignore the objective findings of the staff of the hospital of fever, lymphadenopathy, cranial nerve palsies and abnormal signs in the limbs...Objective evidence of brain stem and spinal cord involvement was observed.|via=[[BMJ]]}}</ref> == Hysteria as psychosonatic symptoms == Prof. [[Michael Sharpe]], a psychiatrist and proponent of the [[biopsychosocial model]] of [[ME/CFS]], claims hysteria is a psychosomatic condition consisting of [[Medically unexplained physical symptoms|medically unexplained symptoms]]:<ref name=":0" /> {{Quote2|Physicians often see symptoms without a definitive organic diagnosis as psychosomatic β a modern if less dramatic version of the 19th-century tendency to label neurological symptoms "hysteria"|Michael Sharpe|}} == Notable studies == * 2005, [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1299341/#!po=3.57143 Eliot Slater's the myth of the non-existence of hysteria]<ref>{{Cite journal | last = Stone | first = Jon | authorlink = Jon Stone | last2 = Warlow | first2 = Charles | authorlink2 = Charles Warlow | last3 = Carson | first3 = Alan | authorlink3 = Alan Carson | last4 = Sharpe | first4 = Michael | authorlink4 = Michael Sharpe | authorlink5 = | date = Dec 2005 | title = Eliot Slater's myth of the non-existence of hysteria | url = https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1299341/|journal=Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine|volume=98|issue=12 | pages = 547β548|issn=0141-0768|pmc=1299341|pmid=16319432|quote=|via=}}</ref> == Articles, talks and interviews == * 2013, [https://www.apa.org/monitor/2013/07-08/symptoms When symptoms are a mystery]<ref name=":0">{{Cite web | url = https://www.apa.org/monitor/2013/07-08/symptoms | title = When symptoms are a mystery | last = DeAngelis | first = Tori | authorlink=Tori DeAngelis | date = 2013 | website = [[American Psychological Association]] | page = 66|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|url-status=|access-date=2019-03-06|quote=Physicians often see symptoms without a definitive organic diagnosis as psychosomatic β a modern if less dramatic version of the 19th-century tendency to label neurological symptoms "hysteria," says Michael Sharpe, MD, a University of Oxford psychiatrist who studies the psychological aspects of medical illness.|lay-date=Jul 2013|issue=7|volume=44}}</ref> == See also == * [[Hypochondriasis]] (hypochondria or illness anxiety disorder) * [[Functional movement disorder]] * [[Biopsychosocial model]] * [[Medically unexplained physical symptoms]] * [[Psychosomatic illness]] * [[Psychologization]] * [[World Health Organization]] ==Learn more== *[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hysteria Wikipedia - Hysteria] [[Category:Psychological paradigm]] [[Category:Mental disorders]] ==References== {{Reflist}} [[Category:Mental disorders]]
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